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• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  Somedays, I check to make sure my diploma is real and I didn’t just ... offer them to begin with. If I’m a student, and we have a Pogo sticking ... "]MIT Educational Counselor[/annotation] for this application season, and being on the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  eager to tell us what they've done with their MIT degree and also excited ... cream and jam, and drinking tea, of course. For those of you who don't know, there are MIT clubs all over the world and they're basically for

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  Tan. They could be charged with first-degree botslaughter and operating ... : 15 CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Several members of the Massachusetts Institute of ... missing and two others are in critical condition with extensive circuitry

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  finals in three days, I packed my bags and headed back home to South Bend ... far as I can tell, not much has changed. And yet, at the same time ... blogs, in spite of talking to upperclassmen and alumni, in spite of going

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  This morning, I was Googling Chris to find a photo of him, and was ... who represented the United States at the International Chemistry ... —we’ve known each other forever, and he is my best friend, and when we talk, I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  ... and arrive at one of my favorites -- I mean, just look at the pattern on ... , except it was late at night, and the sign was clearly no longer applicable ... through this outdoor driveway area connecting parking lots. Yes! Lo and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  Plus institutions are both collaborators and competitors: the former, in the sense that we work together institutionally/academically, and share some ... years. And while the IvyPlus institutions are comparatively wealthy, they

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  Circuits Lab and Solid State Circuits (also a lab class) - These classes ... researching the different programs MIT and the art schools had to offer (and ... over IAP and talking about what classes we're excited/not excited to take

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  take the state certification exam in a couple of weeks, so wish me luck. In other news, April and I got a futon, and now our room is supercool ... . Seriously. She's also supercool, and gave a really awesome presentation with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  thinking about doing for grad school?" ...and the emphatic answer is I DON ... will ever exist in the entire universe--but after three years of problem sets, finals, UROPs, all-nighters, super burritos, Pour House, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  the classes among us reflections and too many flashbacks on classes ft. ESG

  

  class, but course 3 (Material Science) offered a solid-state chemistry ... Personally, I have always found it ironic how universities tout their student: faculty ratio. For freshmen and prospective students, how

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  friends and I traveled to Europe for a different sort of attraction: single ... five different universities. We saw some of the best student ... -level design competition that challenges teams of students to build and race open

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  Hailing from the notoriously hot and humid city of Houston, in which ... midst of 30-something-degree weather, it began to snow. Much to the amusement of floormate Swetha '13 and with the full support of my roommate

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  + Nephew Chair of Research at the American Sports Medicine Institute, and ... Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last ... archrivals Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees. The Red Sox won the rubber game

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  measure. He wanted to go to the Art Institute of Atlanta and study cooking ... Larkspur a semester early and was offered a full academic scholarship to the ... quite successful, and I applaud them for it! Let me tell you a bit about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  still be in high school and interested in robotics. Now that I have ... knew I liked robotics and what that meant academically, but even at that ... tax and accounting, and she served a bunch of other small businesses in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  biomimetics at the University of Bath in England and has collaborated with MIT ... television... well, I've declared myself that and nobody has ever contradicted ... Race for three years now. A short twelve-and-one-half months and I will

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  theory and verify the age of the universe. Smoot received B.S. degrees in ... , alumni, and staff. On Monday, Andrew Fire, a professor at Stanford who ... amazing ability to turn genes on and off at their whim. I used RNAi during

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  University for two years and then my degree from Harvard Extension in Art ... things about MIT--the hacks, the zany, nerdy students building (and ... --down-to-earth and yet on the cutting-edge with a hint of a retro sensibility. Favorite

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action this year I'm so impressed with our applicants

  

  come from 48 states and dozens of countries, bringing with them all their ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... read your essays, to learn about your cultural heritage and family

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 19, 2012